Zayed Charity floats hospital

ABU DHABI: The Zayed Charity Convoys has announced that they have completed their preparations for the launch of a mobile field hospital, to provide medical services to children and the elderly from the Rohingya community in Bangladesh.

The hospital will provide diagnostic, therapeutic and preventative medical services, under the supervision of a volunteer medical team from the UAE and Bangladesh.

The mission is a collaboration between the Zayed Giving Initiative, Dar Al Ber Society, the Saudi-german Hospital Dubai, Sharjah Charity House, and the Hope Foundation for Women and Children in Bangladesh.

Dr Adel Al Shamri, CEO of the Zayed Giving Initiative, stated the start-of-the-art hospital will advance the medical services provided to the refugee children.

Earlier this month, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum ordered three further airlifts to provide relief supplies to the Rohingya refugees.

Sheikh Mohammed also ordered the construction of an open-air bridge from Dubai to Bangladesh, to send relief supplies to the refugees.

“The ield hospital will co-ordinate with local authorities, to prepare an operational plan within a speciic time frame,” he added. Separately, the UN Refugee Agency said, a framework that enables Rohingya refugees to return home and exercise this right in line with international standards will be welcomed.

‘’First and foremost, this means that return must be voluntary, and take place in safe and digniied conditions that pave the way for lasting solutions,’’ said UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards at Friday’s press brieing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.